Time Listings: Aug. 9, 1968

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Television

Wednesday, August 7

Final sessions of the Republican National Convention from Miami Beach, Fla. CBS continues its gavel-to-gavel coverage today and tomorrow, from 7:30 p.m.* to conclusion. NBC will interrupt regularly scheduled programming with live coverage as the news breaks. ABC will have a 90-minute summary of each day's events from 9:30-11 p.m.

Saturday, August 10

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National A.A.U. Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving championships, from Lincoln, Neb.

Sunday, August 11

PRESEASON N.F.L. (CBS, 3-6 p.m.). Football is back. Detroit Lions v. Philadelphia Eagles in the first of the National Football League's preseason exhibitions. Live, from Aztec Stadium, Mexico City.

AMERICAN GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 4-6 p.m.). The last four holes of the final round of the $125,000 tournament. Live, from Firestone Country Club, Akron.

A CASE OF LIBEL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Henry Denker's 1963 courtroom drama based on Louis Nizer's account (My Life in Court) of the case of Quentin Reynolds v. Westbrook Pegler. Starring Van Heflin, Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson. Jose Ferrer and E. G. Marshall. Repeat.

Monday, August 12

NBC COMEDY PLAYHOUSE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Seven Little Foys. The story of the vaudeville family, starring Eddie Foy Jr. as Eddie Foy Sr. and Mickey Rooney as George M. Cohan. Repeat.

Tuesday, August 13

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Saratoga Trunk (1945). Hollywood's version of Edna Ferber's 1941 bestseller about the romance between a roving gambler (Gary Cooper) and an exotic Creole (Ingrid Bergman). Repeat.

CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Of Black America." An examination of slavery and its effect on contemporary racial attitudes. George Foster reports. This continues the special summer series.

Check local listings for dates and times of the NET programs:

NET FESTIVAL. Béla Bartók's one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle sung by Soprano Ana Raquel-Satre and Baritone Norman Foster with the Zagreb Philharmonica.

NET JOURNAL. "Freedom and Famine." A searching examination of India's attempt to function as a democracy, and how difficult that can be in places like the state of Bihar, ridden with drought and disease.

THEATER

Some of the performers appearing in straw-hat productions this week:

MILLBURN, N.J., Paper Mill Playhouse.

Paul Ford plays against an invisible rabbit called Harvey.

NYACK, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse.

George Gobel and Mike Kellin play two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives—until they tried living with each other as a very Odd Couple.

NEW FAIRFIELD, CONN., Candlewood Theater. Sherry Britton does the bumps and grinds in Gems of Burlesque.

FALMOUTH, MASS., Playhouse. Chester Morris and Barbara Britton look at their children and ask What Did We Do Wrong?

CLIO, MICH., Musical Tent. Karen Shepard flings across the Highlands of Scotland in Brigadoon.

WARREN, OHIO, Kenley Players. Van Johnson and Sheila MacRae portray a pair of vaudeville performers, The Great Sebastians.